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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Is Slavery Really Gone?

Wednesday marked the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which banned slavery. Barack Obama observed the occasion, saying, “A hundred and fifty years proved the cure to be necessary but not sufficient. Progress proved halting, too often deferred. Newly freed slaves may have been liberated by the letter of the law, but their daily lives told another tale.” He’s right that systemic oppression has often been a part of America — indeed, the human experience. He called slavery “our nation’s original sin” and described all the ways the struggle against it has unfolded over the years. It should go without saying that slavery was (and is) a vile institution.

What Obama failed to mention, however, is his own party’s long history of guilt on the matter. The Democrats' “Great Society” has done nothing but run up trillions in debt to continue poverty. As Mark Alexander wrote on the 50th anniversary of that travesty, “The human tragedy of LBJ’s soul-crushing ‘welfare’ programs is incalculable.

A rapidly growing permanent underclass, one utterly dependent on the state for its day-to-day existence, now constitutes the Great Society.” By design, Democrats benefit politically from that dependence and permanent racial grievance. Also by design, the first black president has only made race relations worse.

The 'people' that were originally traded as slaves - are now slaves to the Federal Government....except the Federal Government doesn't ask for anything in return for the money they're given - the politicians just want votes!

Slavery is not gone. As a tax payer I feel I am a slave to all those whom do not provide for themselves. My hard work is squandered every day to go to welfare, food stamps, unemployment etc. When will the majority of hard working individuals wake up and smell the slavery?

Jews have been enslaved and masacured by hundreds of thousands. They overcame. Chinese overcame, Irish overcame, Asians overcame. The only group that did not and had great oppurtunity is the African American. I think as long as they continue the identify as African American they will never overcome. It is a mentality of anger and a laziness never seen before. Created by welfare.

150 years is long enough. Stop the guilt trip it is old and tired. Work by the sweat of thy brow. The world is at your feet.

I'm over 60 years old....I have never personally witnessed any slavery. So all that people are arguing over is history....history is DONE!! Can't go back and undo whats already been done! We can and should move on...